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by zootar 8y ago
Do SAT scores correlate highly with parental income after controlling for parental SAT scores?
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by zootar 10y ago
1) Civil engineers and architects can design any bridge they want (though not build it). True, SEs can actually "build" any software they want, but without users it can be hard to tell how good it is. 2) What's the medical &#
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by zootar 11y ago
If you're a programmer who can pass algorithm interviews, you have a great chance of scoring near the 90th percentile the first time you attempt the LSAT, and the 96th percentile with practice. Scoring much below the 80th percentile o
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by zootar 11y ago
The "more new lawyers graduating each year than there are law jobs" factoid is both stale and irrelevant. Most of those new lawyers had admissions scores well below the 50th percentile and are graduating from third and fourth tie
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by zootar 11y ago
If you're saying some jobs that today require "Excel" will require "Excel with VBA", sure. But I'm skeptical that programming will become some sort of new literacy. It seems to me that programming has narrowe
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by zootar 11y ago
The world is increasingly dependent on lawyers, the demand for which increases with the size and complexity of the economy. More economic activity means more agreements to be negotiated, disputes to be resolved, and regulations to be enfor
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by zootar 11y ago
Null means "without value, effect, consequence, or significance; being or amounting to nothing". Google "reproducibility crisis", "Why Most Published Research Findings Are False" by Ionnadis, "The Garden o
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by zootar 11y ago
Most of them are negative results, though usually not overtly presented as such. In my experience, it's extremely rare for a researcher to throw away months of hard work because the result is null. They almost always find a way to au
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by zootar 11y ago
You're not in academia, are you? There're hundreds of obscure journals and conferences with very low standards. As long as you choose venues that are within your league, you can publish anything that remotely resembles research,
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by zootar 11y ago
Is your wife a tenured professor? What is she thinking of doing instead?
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MIT alumni in their 50s(blogs.law.harvard.edu)
199 points by zootar 11y ago|151 comments
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by zootar 11y ago
"By welcoming migrant workers, the UAE and its neighbor Qatar do more than any other rich country to reduce global inequality." http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120179/how-reduce-global-...
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We make videos, mostly for neat tech products. Here are some(sandwichvideo.com)
1 points by zootar 12y ago|0 comments
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Live not by lies (1974)(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by zootar 12y ago|0 comments
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Why Uber Will–and Should–Be Regulated(slate.com)
2 points by zootar 12y ago|2 comments
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by zootar 12y ago
> your best guess why they are underrepresented? Christina Hoff Sommers' guesses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-6usiN4uoA , http://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/03/wha
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Less research is needed(blogs.plos.org)
90 points by zootar 12y ago|17 comments
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What Silicon Valley’s ageism means(michaelochurch.wordpress.com)
1 points by zootar 12y ago|0 comments
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How A Lawsuit Over Hot Coffee Helped Erode the 7th Amendment(priceonomics.com)
211 points by zootar 12y ago|192 comments
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Piketty, inequality and volatility: How can r exceed g?(chrisstucchio.com)
41 points by zootar 12y ago|43 comments
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Mark Cuban's HFT idiocy(chrisstucchio.com)
3 points by zootar 12y ago|0 comments
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Democracy2: The Future of Collective Decisions(research.microsoft.com)
1 points by zootar 13y ago|1 comments
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Hal Abelson Q&A (2011)(codequarterly.com)
1 points by zootar 13y ago|0 comments
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Why is housing finance stuck in such a primitive stage? [pdf]
5 points by zootar 13y ago|2 comments
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by zootar 13y ago
The connection between lead and crime is tenuous. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6092990 .
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Goldman versus Google: A career on Wall Street or in Silicon Valley? [video](youtube.com)
7 points by zootar 13y ago|3 comments
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How the Bitcoin protocol actually works(michaelnielsen.org)
524 points by zootar 13y ago|55 comments
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Is economics a science?(theguardian.com)
25 points by zootar 13y ago|51 comments
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by zootar 13y ago
Steven Pinker on the lead theory: There are reasons to be skeptical of any claim based on correlations between such widely separated variables as lead exposure (the cause) and crime (the effect). Consuming lead does not instantly turn some
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by zootar 14y ago
What fiction do you recommend? A comment of yours from a few years ago describes how I feel about fiction now: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=917882 .

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